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about dive indiaOUR PHILOSOPHY
Having dived all over the world – from North Atlantic deep-sea wrecks to Florida to the Mediterranean to Red Sea to Maldives – we have always been drawn to a particular type of dive operation: one offering professional quality service, but in a flexible and relaxed manner - a shop where you feel like hanging out after the dive, having a refreshing post-dive beverage (we recommend “scuba libres”) and swapping travel/dive stories.    

We feel diving should be fun, diving should be safe and diving should be accessible. Everything we do is based on these three tenets. That is why, for example, we have not adopted a premium pricing strategy, despite having the most experienced group of instructors and divemasters in the Andamans (remember - NO ONE on this planet has done more dives in the Andamans or knows these waters better than us).       

We'd like to think that our dive shop offers just that. We have a passion for diving, and a passion for the Andamans, and all of us here at DIVEIndia – instructors, divemasters, staff, 2 boisterous not-quite-puppies & 1 grouchy cat – look forward to sharing that passion with you, not just as our customers but also as our friends.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS
DIVEIndia was founded by Vandit Kalia, aka Vinnie. A former management consulting drone, a very early midlife crisis (at the ripe old age of 28) made him take a year off as a sabbatical. Despite returning to the corporate world after the sabbatical, he was unable to resist the call of the islands. So he decided to walk away from the rat race and start his own dive operation there.

Vinnie is a NAUI Course Director, a PADI Staff Instructor and SSI Divecontrol Specialist Instructor. In addition, he is an experienced cold-water trimix/technical diver. His main passion is wreck diving, and his eyes gleam with an unholy light at happy memories of diving the freezing-water wrecks of the North Atlantic, adult diapers and all. Some days, when he has time off from shaving his legs (supposedly for cycling/triathlons, he claims. We suspect it is simply because he likes his legs to be silky smooth), he even dives.

The real person in charge is Vikas ("The Tribal"), who used to teach in Goa and consequently, goes into raptures every time he sees his own fin in the water. There is a popular theory that Vikas only learned to wear clothes a few years ago, but we can neither confirm or deny these rumors - best to ask him. In addition to being the Chief Instructor/Dive Center Manager/General Terror At Large, Vikas is also a keen underwater videographer, with a very impressive underwater rig (which no one has actually seen him take underwater).

Sayeed the Tamil Hearththrob, seems to have become a specialist at finding all sorts of tiny critters - including Andaman's first spiny devilfish and frogfish. We still cannot believe how quickly he's grown, and no matter how cool and experienced Sayeed may proclaim himself to be, he'll always be Fungus to us.

Also returning this season are Karthik (aka Google) and Melissa. Karthik has an unholy fondness for Southern Spice rum, loves snakes and knows the answer to everything; Melissa loves being asked where she is from (a question which requires a full 10 minutes to be answered completely) and tends to disappear without warning in the evening (we suspect a case of Goldilocks syndrome).

And rounding out our team of instructors this season are 2 new additions to the team: Rahul, who claims to be a marine biologist of some sort and Angshuman, the Codebreaker.

Rahul did his Divemaster course with us a few years ago, and as seems to be the trend, couldnt stay away - he is the only person we know who is not only addicted to the Rubik's cube, but who only uses his own personal Cube (which he has taken apart and oiled for faster operation).

Angshuman decided that it was better to be a scuba instructor near the sea, as opposed to inland, and moved to the Andamans after working in Bangalore. And promptly on arrival, he solved A Great Mystery that had Sayeed and Vikas flummoxed for years. We are all in awe!

Handling all the back-end tasks involved in running the dive center (such as making sure those tasty surface-interval samosas get there on time, and there is enough petrol for the boats even when the island is having a petrol shortage) is Ivan, who is also a very experienced Divemaster as well.

Our chief Divemaster/Assistant Instructor, Johnnie, has spent almost as much time underwater in the Andamans as above it. He worked for an environmental agency doing research on turtles, and is an expert freediver as well. He loves to dive, and the hard part is to get him to come up after a dive.

Back for his third season as Divemaster is Juju. With over a thousand dives in the Havelock waters, he is a very experienced dive guide as well.

And of course there are the two dogs - Frodo Waggins, the Golden Retriever (he's the one getting really intimate with your leg) and Sam Smalldog, the Labrador (he's the one stealing your food). They are the ones who really are in charge - us humans exist merely to cater to their every whim and desire!

We do not mention The Cat around here. She's mean (and were we to extend the Usual Suspects theme, she'd be the real Kaiser Soze).
 
     
             
 
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